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4 THE MORNING NEWS. )
' FUTABLISHKD ISSO. IsCOaPOHXTZD 1888. -
I H. ESTILL, President. )
first day of the trip.
FORTRESS MONROE THE FIRST
POINT VISITED.
Norfolk Touched on the Sail Down
Hampton Roads, But the Hospitali
ties of the Town Not Aocepted—The
Hew Cruiser Baltimore Inspected at
Portsmouth.
Fortress Monroe, Va., April 150.—The
members of the pan-American conference,
on their special train, slept under blankets
the first night out of Wasbingto 1 on their
tour southward, and the early risers of the
party this morning looked forth upon board
walks at Fortress Monroe glistening with
trost. After breakfast upon the train the
members of the conference proceeded to
the fort, whore Commandant R. T. Frank
and staff received them. A guard mount
was witnessed on the green turf of the par
ade field. The officers’ quarters were
visited.
EX-PRESIDENT DAVIS’ QUARTERS.
The building and room where Jefferson
Davis was at one time confined was re
garded with strong interest, and the party
then boarded the Dispatch for a sail down
Hampton road. Norfolk was touched.
The citizens there were intensely disap
pointed that the delayed start of the excur
sion had forced the cu'ting out of that city
from the itinerary. An arch of welcome
spanned the main street near the water’s
edge and the colors of the various rations
represented in the conference fluttered from
buildings near.
DISAPPOINTED ENTERTAINERS.
The gentlemen who would have enter
tained the company on behalf of the city
joined the party,among them being Col. W ill
jam Paul, president of the chamber of com
merce; Cant. G. W. Taylor, Col. H. C.
Hudgins, Capt. J. W. McCarrick, in whom
Minister Zagarra of Peru w elcomed a class
mate at Georgetown College, Dis rict of
Columbia, V. D. Groner, N. M. Osborne,
Samuel Snoemakar and Maj. A. Myers.
AN HOUR AT PORTSMOUTH.
An hour was spent at the Portsmouth
navy yard, where Commodore Weaver and
staff conducted the party aboard the new
war vessel Baltimore. Lieut. McCrea ex
hibited the working of two great fourteen
ton guns which hurl 250-pound shells eight
mi'es.
“Our conference has rendered these great
gnus unnecessary,” remarked Ciom Stude
baker of the American delegation.
“But they do no harm resting here on
their mute strength,” added Senor Zagarra
of Peril, who looked meanwhilo through the
shining eight-inch bore of the gun.
Sailing back to Fortress Monroe in the
late afternoon the points were shown where
the Merrimac played havoc with the union
vessels until the Monitor stopped her work.
The party returned here at dude, dined
quietly and spent the evening informally.
At 11 o’clock they started on their special
train for Richmond.
ITALY'S PRESS.
The Invitation to the Leading Papers
ot This Country.
Washington, April 20.—The Washington
agency of the Associated Press is in receipt
of a letter, through Baron Fava, the Italinn
minister, in which au invitation is by this
means extended on the part of
the press association (ir Associated Press)
of Italy to “representatives of leading
journals of the United States, - ’ to
attend the festivities which will take plnce
next month at Romo in conue tio i with
the inauguration of the first “grand prix”
of Rome for horses ot nil nations, a great
national riffe competition and local in
dustrial exposition. The president of the
press association w rites that its members
propose to give to their brother journalists
of this country “every possible facility to
see and know all that there is in Rome of
interest for a journalist.” The headquar
ters of the association are at No. 1 Via
Della Mis ione, Rome.
Randall as a Soldier.
Washington, April 2!). —It is stated by
members of the Society of the Army of the
Cumberland that at the annual meeting of
that society at Toledo next September ar
rangements will bo made for the erection in
ti.is city of a monument to the late Hon.
Samuel J. Randall as the typical private
soldier.
DROWNED AT COLUMBUS.
A Rowboat Drawn Against the Rocks
at a Dam.
Columbus, Ga., April 30.—A fatal acci
dent occurred on the river front in this city
this afternoon. A party of yonng men
were out in boats enjoying a row, when
George Mason and Joseph Hauserd, who
"'ere in one boat, rowed too near the strong
dam at the cits - mill and the frail craft wan
drawn violently by suction against the
rocks. The boat was st >ve in and Mason
and Hauserd were sucked under. Hauserd
disappeared and Mason rose to the surface
and was rescued by other boats.
HAD A CLOSE CALL.
His face was badly bruised by coming in
contact with the rocks, and he was tilled
with water, but has r c jvere 1 Up to a
late hour the body of Hansord has not been
iwovered. He was n promising young man
about 31 years old. and was employed as a
stenographer iu the office of Supt,
Curran of the Savannah and Western rail
load in this city. He belonged to one of
oiliest and best known families of Colum
bus. Ho leaves a widowed mother and
several sisters.
went away with a drummer.
4 Banker’s Wife Elopes After Being
Married Only Six Weeks.
Omaha, April 19.—A sensational elope
ment is reported from Oxford, Neb., where
the handsome young wife of Id. P. Camp of
the Farmers’ State Bank of that city has
disappeared with a commercial traveler
named H. N. Ferguson. The couple were
married iu Madison, VVis,, in the middle of
February last, and the elopement took place
atiout six weeks afterward, but has just
been made public.
Camp traced the guilty pair as far east as
Chicago, but there gavo up the, chase and
W “1 now bring suit for divorce.
Struck to See a Ball Game.
Call River, Mass., April 19. —Thirty-
fight spinners at the Weetarnoe mill al
lowed tlieir Iwe for base ball to get the
Upper hand of them Wednesday afternoon,
i hey held a meeting, and as a result started
ti n , f * le aft rnoon to see the Boston
brotherhood base ball team play, but failed
to give any notice of their intention to the
mill superintendent. Yesterday the mill
urpnsed the spinners and fallen to start,
he spinners had received no notice of a
shutdown. Treasurer Lindsey of the mill
to give the men time to gratify
ieir love for base ball, and is not at ail
~ arse up the mill for a few
a> s. He hasn’t decided when the mill will
v ™ u .? e ° l ' arat mnß. but the mill will he silent
ioi the rest of the week.
Hl )t Hofniuo
CUT OF THE EXPRESS COMPANY.
Chicago Employes Hold a Meeting
and Talk of Striking.
Chicago, April 20. —The great dissatis
faction among the employes of the United
State* Express Company over the order
reducing salaries in all departments culmin
ated to-day in a mass meeting of the
Chicago employee at which intense feeling
"as manifested. William Stubbs, one of
the oldest men in the service, was appointed
chairman, E. C. Rosey secretary, and Geo.
Hinckley assistant secretary.
A document giving details of the sliding
scale, wnich makes cuts varying from 10 to
20 per cent., was read, and then one after
another of a score of men, some employes
who have worked from twenty to thirty
years for the company, arose and denounced
the proposed measure as heartless injustice
to themselves and families, and one as need
less as it was unjust.
THE GENERAL AGENT RETREATS.
Alonzo Wvgant, the Chicago general
agent, who was present by request, mani
festly felt uncomfortable, and beat a hasty
retreat after making a short explanatory
address. He said the United States Ex
press Company, and some others, are
paying most of their profits to the railroads.
The [future of the express business
is not bright, he said, and he would not put
a straw in their way it' any of them could
better their condition elsewhere. A strike
would be fruitlo-8, for the company would
certainly resort to the employment of inex
perienced bands. Despite Mr. Wygaut’s
assertions, however, the rnen expressed
themselves in unqualified terras in favor of
taking a stand aud holding out against the
company.
MODERATION URGED.
Chairman Stubbs urged moderation and
care, saying a strike should not be declared
until it had been definitely ascertained that
the officers of the company would not arbi
trate.
A committee of ten, headed by Chairman
Stubbs, and including messengers, wagon
men, office men, depot man and solicito s,
was appointed to wait upon Vice President
Crosby and make an effort to adjust mat
ters by arbitration, and was instructed to
report next Sunday. If the committee is
not favorably received a strike seems almost
certain May 1, when the new schedule of
wages is to go into effect.
LYNCHED ON BUSPICION.
Negro Held as a Barn Burner Hung
by a Mob.
Nashville, April 20.— A special to the
American from Fayetteville, Teun., says:
“Last month the barn of J. C. Kelso, near
here, was burned, and suspicion pointed to
Steve Jacobs (colored), who had been dis
charged by Kelso sometime previous, as the
incendiary. He was immediately arrested,
and failing to give bond, was lodged in jail.
Threats of lynching were freely made, but
it was thought best to let the law take it3
course.
DID THIS ONE BURN BOTH i
“Last Tuesday night the barn of W. J.
Sandeas was burned, which again brought
attention to the case of Jacobs. AtJ2 o’clock
this morning 100 determined men rode into
town and marched to the jail and demanded
of the sheriff that he deliver Jacobs to them.
The sheriff refused to do so, whereupon they
commenced to break down the door with
sledge hammers.
THE SHERIFF SURRENDERS.
“Finding resistance useless tne sheriff
opened the door and together with his
deputy attempted to force his way through
the mob and give an alarm, out they were
seized and taken back and forced to unlock
the cell in which Jacobs was confined. A
rope was put around the prisoner’s neck
and he was taken about one mile from town
and hanged to a tree, afte - which the mob
quietly dispersed. The body was cut down
to-day aud buried.”
THREE MINERS SUFFOCATED.
Men Above Mistook Orders and Cut
Off the Air Supply.
LaSalle, 111., April 29.—Three miners
working in shaft No. 2 of the Spring Valley
Coal Company’s mines were smothered
while fighting fire this morning. The fire
started during the night iu the lower level.
At 10 o’clock Supt. John Eustice, with a
gang of men, went below to attempt to
check the flames. They sent back orders
which were understood to be to
shut off the atr supply. The shaft quickly
filled with gas and before assistance could
be given Supt. Eustice, N. P. Akeyson and
Jacob Williamson were suffocated. Their
two companions were rescued before losing
consciousness and aided in bringing up the
three bodies.
AN INGENIOUS INVENTION.
A Machine to Make Railroad Con
ductors Honest.
New Orleans, April 19. -Senor Juan
Caminando Coleman, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Illinois Central railroad,
and Senor Don Roberto Gillespie, agente do
nasajas Ferro-Carril Central Mejicano, as
they are now known, have returned from
Mexico, where they attended the meeting of 1
the general passenger agents of America
on March 18. These gentlemen while in
Mexico were shown a:i ingenious and very
unique invention. It is shaped like a Ham
mond typewriter, oval on one side nnd flat
on the other, and is operated like the type
writer.
The object of this novel instrument is to
make it impossible for c inductors to “knock
down" fares. The passenger presents iiis
ticket to the conductor, who reads tho name
on it and puts it in the “type-writer,” at the
same time punching the letters of the name
on the ticket. There is a bright piece of
steel at which the passengei' looks as the
conductor writes his name. Whon the con
ductor his finished pu :ctaing a small peg a
bell ring; and a small piece of gutta percha
shuts over the steel plate. In thirty seconds
the work is done and a perfect photograph
of the passenger is taken, the amount of the
ticket registered on the back and the name
of the passenger print and above the amount.
The whole j >0 can be done in two minutes
and a half, and is the most complete thing
yet gotten out.
IN MALE ATTIRE.
The Fruitless Effort of a Kentucky
Woman to Get Work.
fiYim the Philadelphia Press.
Louisville, April 17.—Mrs. E. M.
Nugent, a widow, 39 years of age,'was ar
rested on the streets last night dressod in
malo attire. She wore a false mustache,but
her disguise w as detected by some boys who
followed her. She was arrested and locked
up. She was tried to-day on a writ of
habeas corpus and released.
Mrs. Nugent told her story in court. She
came from Owensboro, where she has lived
most of her life. When her husband died
she was thrown upon her own resources.
She was unable to support herself with her
neodle and came to Louisville about threi
months ago. She put on a man’s wearing
apparel under the impression that she could
make a living much more eauly as a man.
The woman was refined and evidently in
telligent, and her distress st her situation
was great. She was sent back.to Owens
boro, where she said she had a little child.
ALARM IN AUSTRIA.
An Eight-Hour Demonstration May I
Now a Certainty.
Vienna, April 20.—The workmen of the
mines and iron works of the Prague In
dustrial Company of the Austro-Alpine
Mining Company demand a working day of
eight hours, threatened a strike if their de
mand is not granted. Their movement is
ominous of a general strike throughout the
empire, and causes the greatest fears among
tne authorities. The movement is traced to
foreign meetings, first affecting the smaller
trades of Vienna. Prague and Gratz, and
next the masons of Vienna, followed by the
bakers and turners. The present state of
general excitement ensures demonstrations
on May 1.
the authorities nervous.
The authorities are nervous and the cabi
net council has prepared a pi oclamation
which will be published shortly, with a
view to influencing the workmen. Tne au
thorities at Kladno, where 17,000 workmen
threaten to strike, ask for troops, and other
industrial centers where there are no garri
sons make similar demands, the local au
thorities declaring that they will be power
less to maintain order.
STANLEY LION OF THE HOUR.
Hobnobbing With Royalty, Feasting,
Driving and Receiving Ovations.
Brussels, April 20.—After dinner in tho
palace last evening Henry M. Stanley
passed the evening conversing with the
king. To-day he drove through the city,
accompanied by two orderly officers. This
evening he went to a banquet in the town
hall given by Burgomaster Buis. Sixty cov
ers were laid. The Salle Gothique, in which
the banquet was held, was splendidly dec
orated with flags of Belgium, Great Britain
aud the Congo State. After tho banquet
Stanley had a conversation with the king.
To-morrow the explorer dines with M. Lam
bert, son-in-law of Baron Rothschild.
Whenever Stanley apjx -s in public he re
ceives an ovation. numbers of
cable dispatches, letters and presents are
reaching him.
Burgomaster Bills, in proposing the health
of Stanley, prophesied that Africa would
beooma what America is to-day. In his
reply Stanley said he foresaw the day whon
Belgians would start by steamer from Ant
wero to visit their brethren in the Congo
State. v
A HOLIDAY IN GERMANY.
The Advico of the Socialist Leaders
Not Apt to be Heeded.
Berlin, April 20. —Notwithstanding the
advice of the socialist leaders against a com
plete suspension of work on May 1, numer
ous meetings of workmen in Berlin and at
other cities have adopted resolutions in
favor of a holiday on that day. Thirty
owners of metal works at Magdeburg have
warned their men that they will be dis
missed if absent from work on May day.
The strike agitation began at Ostran is
spreading to Russia. Cavalry are guarding
the frontier. Ten Czech agitators have been
arrested on Prussian soil. It is believed
that Austrian and German anarchists in
London are raising money for tho agita
tion.
At Mulhasen 17,000 spinners and weavers
are idle, and a total cessation of work in
all tho factories is expected to-morrow.
BISMARCK STILL ON DECK.
t
He Will Soon Appeal - In the Upper
House of the Landtag.
Berlin, April 20. The Hamburger
Nachrichten denies that recent articles
against Chancellor von Caprivi were insti
gated by Prince Bismarck. At the same
time it announces that the prince will not
relinquish his connection with the press, and
that ho intends soon to appear in the upper
house of the Landtag, and will also accent
a candidature for the Reichstag. The
Nachrichten adds: “It would be a great
mistake to imagine the ex-chancellor us old
aud broken down, or to suppose that he will
remain a passive spectator of events. Toe
German people have a right to know the
prince’s views on important questions.”
LONDON’S LABORERS.
Eighteen District Meetings in Favor
of a May Demonstration.
London, April 30.—Eighteen district
meetings wore held in Loudon to-day in
response to the call of the Federation of
Labor Unions, and all voted in favor of the
proposed demonstration May 1. The largest,
contingent assembled in Hyde Park and
was addressed by a socialist, John Will
iams, whose remarks were loudly cheered.
He said that workmen had four holidays
forced upon them yearly by capitalists
whether the men wanted them or not. Let
them now show their pluck and unite with
their brother laborers abroad in taking
May 1 as their own holiday.
A Flood in Australia.
London, April 30.—A dispatch from
Australia says Darling river is several miles
wide around Bourke, and that the only
building not flooded is a church. Rescue
boats are kept busy removing people aud
property to places of safety.
Brazil’s New War Minister.
Rio Janeiro, April 30.—Gen. Perscoto
assumes the war portfolio in place of Gen.
Constan’, who becomes minister of the new
department of education, posts and tele
graphs.
Pilgrims Before the Pope.
Rome, April 30. —The pope to-day re
ceived 5,000 Italian pilgrims. He made a
forcible speech, in which he indicted the
government. The audience cheered and
shouted “Long live the pope!”
POISON FROM A TORNADO.
Germs of Disease Carried by the Wind
Great Distances.
Louisville, April 19. —A week ago the
family of Lewis Prewitt, living near La
grange, was attacked with a virulent disease,
the nature of which the local doctors were
unable to determine. Its symptoms were
similar to those of spotted fever. Dr. Por
ter at length decided that it was “tornado
poisoning.”
The germs, he said, were borne on the late
tornado from toms infected district and
lodged in the vicinity of the Prewitt home
stead. He claims that small-pox and other
virulent diseases have thus been communi
cated in many instances of medical history.
A GIRL CHASED BY A SNAKE.
A Dog Comes to the Rescue and Kills
the Reptile.
Easton, April 19.— While a 15-year-old
daughter of Hiram Bachman, a farmer of
William* township, was gathering daud
delions a short distance from her home, she
saw in a clump of bushes a huge snake
ready {to spring.
With a scream the child started for home,
followed by the serpent. The girl’s cries
attracted the attention of a dog owned by
Mr. Bachman, which attacked and killed
the serpent, which was found to measure
over six feet iu length.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1890.
SUBLIMITY OF SURGERY.
TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE PRO
FESSION OF HEALING.
A Regret that All Clergymen Are Not
Doctors aa Well—A Glance at the
Early Hlatory of the Art—Christ
Pictured as the Greatest Surgeon of
All History.
Brooklyn, April 20.—The audiences Dr.
Talmage has had on Sunday ovenings, since
the turning of ths tabernacle drove his con
gregation to the shelter of the Academy of
Music, have been something phenomenal.
This evening the spacious building was
filled in every part The popular preacher
discoursed on the profession of healing.
His text was Matthew xi.,5: “The blind
receive their sight, and the lame walk, the
lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear.” He
said:
“Doctor,” I said to a distinguished sur
geon, “do you not get worn out with con
stantly seeing so muny wounds, and broken
bones, and distortions of the human body?”
“O no,” he answered, “all that is overcome
by my joy in curing them.” Asu limer or
more merciful art never came down from
heaven tbau the art of surgery. Catastrophe
and disease entered the earth so early that
one of the first wants of the world was a
doctor. Our crippled and agonized human
race called for surgeon and family physician
for many years before they came. The
first surgeons who answered this call
were ministers of religion, namely, the
Egyptian priests. And what a grand thing
if nil clergymen were also doctors, all
D. D.’s were “also M. D.’s, for there are so
many cases where body and soul need treat
ment at the same time, consolation and
medicine, theology and therapeutic*. As
the first surgeons of the world were also
ministers of religion, may these two pro
fessions always be in full sympathy! But
uuder what disdvantages the early sur
geons worked, from the fact that the dis
section of the human body was forbidden,
first by the pagans and then by the earlj -
Christians! Apes, being the brutes most
like the human race, were dissected, but no
human body might be unfolded for physi.>-
logical aud anatomical exploration, and the
surgeons had to guess what wa* inside the
temple by looking at tho outside of it. if
they failed in any surgical operation they
wore persecuted and driven out of the
city, as was Archagathus because of his
bold but unsuccessful attempt to save a
patient.
But the world from the very beginning
kopt calling for surgeons, and their first
skill is spoken of in Genesis, where they em
ployed their art for the incisions of a sacred
right, God making surgery the predecessor
of baptism; and we see it again iu 11. Kings,
where Ahaziah, the monarch, stepped on
some cracked latticework in the palace and
it broke, and he fall from the upper to the
lower ii-ior, and he was so hurt that he sent
to the village for aid; and Esculapius, who
wrought such wonders of surgery that ha
was deified, and temples were built for his
worship at Pergatnos; and JCoidaurus and
I’odelirius introduced for the relief of
the world phlebotomy; • aud Damo
cedes cured the duloc ite* ankle of
King Darius, and the oaucer of
his queen; aud Hippocrates put successful
hand on fractures, and introduced amputa
tion • and Praxagora* removed obstructions;
and Herophilus began dissection, aud Eras
istratus removed tumors; and Celsus, the
Roman surgeon, removed cataract from the
eye, and used the Spanish fly; and Helio
dorus arrested disease of the throat; and
Alezander of Tralles treated the eye; and
Rhazas cauterized for the prevention of
hydrophobia; and Percival Pott came to
combat diseases of the spine; and in our own
century we have had a Roux and
a Larray in France, an Astley Cooper
and an Abernethy in Great Britai \
and a Valentine Mott and Willard
Parker and Samuel D. Gross in America,
and a galaxy of living surgeons as brilliant
as the predecessors. What mighty progress
in the battling of disease since the crippled
and sick of ancient cities were laid along the
streets, that people who had ever been hurt
or disordered in the same way might sug
gest what hail better be done for the pa
tients; and the priests of olden time, who
were constantly suffering from colds re
ceived in walking barefoot over the temple
pavements, had to prescribe for them
selves, and fracture were considered
so far beyond all human cure that
instead of calling in the surgeons
the people only invoked the gods!
3ut notwithstanding all the surgical and
medical skill of the world, with what ten
acity the old diseases hang on to tho human
race, and most of them are thousands of
years old, and in our Bibies we read of
them; the carbuncles of Job and Hezakiah;
the palpitation of tho heart spoken of iu
Deuteronomy: tne mn-stroke of a child
carried from the fields ot Shunem, crying,
“My head! my head!” King Asa’s disease
of the fee*, which was nothing but gout;
defection of teeth, that called for dental
surgery, the skill of which, quite equal to
anything modern, is still seen in
the filled molars of the unrolled
Egyptian mummies; the ophthal
mia caused by the juice of the newly ripe
fig, leaving the people blind at the roadside;
epilepsy, as in the case of the young man
often failing into the fire and oft into the
water; hypochondria, as of Nebuchadnez
zar, who imagined himself au ox, and going
out into the fields to pasture; the withered
hand, which in Bible times, as now, came
from the destruction of the main artery, or
from paralysis of the chief nerve; the
wounds of the man whom tho thieves left
for dead on the road to Jerioho, and whom
the good Samaritan nursed, pouring in oil
and wine—wine to cleanse the wound and
oil to soothe it. Thank God for what sur
gery has done for the alleviation aud cure
of human suffering!
But the world wanted a surgery without
pain. Doctors Parre and liickmau and
8 mpaon and Wurner and Jackson, with
their amazing genius, came on, and with
their anmsthelics benumbed the patieut
with narcotics and ethers as the aucioats
did with hasheesh and mandrake, and
quieted him for a while, but at tho returu
of consciousness distress returned. Tho
world has never seen but one surgeon who
could straighten the crooked limb, cure the
blind eye, or °on'truot the drum of a
soundless ear, or reduce a dropsy, without
any pain at the time or any pain after, and
that surgeon was Jesus Cnrbt, the mighti
est, grandest, gentlest and most sympathetic
surgeon the world ever saw, or ever will
see; and ho deserves the confidence and love
aud worship and hosanna of all the earth,
and hallelujahs of all heaven. “The blinu
receive their sight, and the lame walk; the
lepers are cleansed aud the deaf hear.”
I notice this surgeon had a fondness for
chronic cases. Many a surgeon, when be
has had a patient brought to him, has said:
“Why was not this a‘tended to five years
ago? You bring him to me after all power
of recuperation is gone. You
have waited until there is a complete
contraction of tho muscles, and false liga
tures are formed, and ossification has taken
place. It ought to have been attends 1 to
long ago." But Christ the surgeon scorned
to prefer inveterate cases.- Oae was a
hemorrhage of twelve years, and he stopped
it. Another was a curvature of eighteen
years, and he straightened it. Another was
a cripple of thirty-eight years, and lie
walked out welL The eighteen-year
patient was a woman bent almost double.
If you could call a convention of
all the surgeons of all the ceuturies, their
combined skill could not cure that body so
drawn out of shape. Perhap* they might
stop it from getting any worse, perhaps they
might contrive braces bv which she might
bo made more co i.fortable, but it is, hu
manly speaking, incurable. Yet this di
vine surgeon put both Ins hand* ori her,
and from that doubled-up posture she
began to rise, and tho empurpled face
began to take on a healthier hue. and ths
muscles began to relax from their rigidity,
and. the spinal column began to adjust
itself, and the cords of the neck began to
be more supple, and the eyes that could see
only the ground liefore’ uow looked into
the face of Christ with gratitude, and up
toward heaven with transport. Straight !
After eighteen weary and exhaustive years,
straight,? Tho poise, the gracefulness, the
beauty of healthv womanhood reinstated.
Tne thirty-eight years’ case was a man
who lay on a mattress near the mineral
baths at Jerusalem. There were five apart
ments where lame people wore brought, so
that tboy could get the advantage of these
mineral baths. The stone basin of the bath
Is still visible although the waters have dis
appeared, probably through some convul
sion of nature, the bath, one hundred and
twenty feet long, forty feet wide, and eight
feet deep. Ah, pour mm; if you have
been lime and helploss thirty-eight years,
that mineral bath cannot restore you.
Why, thirty-eight years is more than the
average of human life! Nothing but
the grave will euro you. But Christ tho
surgeon walks along these baths, and I have
no doubt passes by some patients who have
been only six months disordered, or a year,
or fivo years, and comes to the mattress of
the man who had been nearly four decades
helpless, aud to this thirty-eight years’ in
valid said: “Wilt thou be made whole?”
The quostion asked, not because tho surgeon
did not understand the protractednoss, tho
desporateness, of tho case, but to evoke the
man’s pathetic narrative. “Wilt thou be
made whole?” “Would you like to got
well?” "O, yes,” says the man; “that is
what I catuo to these mineral baths
for; I have tried everything. All
the surgeons have failed, and all the
prescriptions have proved valueless, and
I have got worse and worse, and I can
neither move hand or foot or head. O, if
I could only bo free from this pain of thirty
eight years!’ Christ, the surgeon, could not
stand that. Bending over the man on the
mattress, and in a voice tender with all
sympathy, but strong with all omnipotence,
he says, “Rise!” Aud the invalid instantly
scrambles to his knees, and then puts out ills
rigtit foot, then his left foot, and then stood
upright as though he had never been pros
trated. While he stand* looking at the
doctor with a joy too much to hold, the
doctor says: “Shoulder this mattress! for
you are not only well enough to walk, but
weli enough to work, and start out from
theso mineral baths. Take up thy bod and
walkl” O what a surgeon for chronic case*
thou, and for chronic cases now I
This is not applicable so much to those
who are only a littlo hurt of sin, nnd only
for a short time, but to those prostrated of
sin twelve years, eighteen years, thirty
eight years. Here is a surgeon able to give
immortal health. “0,” you say, “I am so
completely overthrown aud trampled down
of sin that 1 cannot rise.” Are you ftattar
down than this patient at the mineral
baths? No. Then rise. In the name of
Jesus of Nazareth, tho surgeon who offers
you his right hand of help, I bid thee rise.
Not cases of acute sin, but of chronic sin—
those who have not prayed for thirty-eight
years, those who have not been
to church for thirty-eight years,
those who have been gamblers, or
libertines, or thieves, or outlaws, or
blasphemers, or infidels, or atheists, or all
these together, for thirty-eight years. A
Christ for exigencies? A Christ for a dead
lift! A surgeon who never loses a case!
In speaking of Christ as a surgeon, I must
consider him as au oculist, or eye doctor,
and an aurist, or ear doctor. Was there
ever such another oculist? That he was
particularly sorry for the blind folks, I take
from the fact that the most of his works
was with the deceased optic nerves. I have
not time to count up the number of blind
people montioned who got his cure. Two
blind men in one honso, also one who was
born blind; so that it was not removal of a
visual obstruction, but the creation of the
cornea, and ciliary muscle, and crystalline
lens, and retina, and optic tierve,
and tear gland; also the blind man
of Bethesda, cured by the saliva
which the surgeon took from the tip of
his own tongue and put upon the eyelids;
also two blind men who sat by the wayside.
In our civilized lands we have blindness
enough, the ratio fearfully increasing, ac
cording to the statement of Boston arid New
Y ork aiul Philadelphia oculists, because of
the reading of morning and evening news
papers on the jolting cars by the multitude)
who live out of the city and come in to
business. But in the lands where this divine
surgeon operated, the cases of blindness
were multiplied beyond everything by the
particles of sand floating in tho air, and the
night dews falling on the eyelids of those
who slept on the tops of their houses; and
in some of these lands it is estimated that
twenty out of a hundred people are totally
blind. Amid all that crowd of
visionless people, what work for an oculist!
And I do not believe that more than one
out of a hundred of that surgeon’s cures
were reported. Ho went up and and *wn
among those people who wore feeling
slowly they way by stair, or led by tho
hand of man or rope of dog, and introduc
ing them to the faces of their own house
hold, lo the sunrise and the sunset, and the
eveuing star. Ho just ran his hand over
tiie expressionless face, and the shutters
of bo h windows were swung open a id tho
restored wont home, crying: “I see! I
see! Thank God. I see!”
That is the oculist we all need. Till he
touches our eyes wo are blind. Yea, we
were born blind. By nature we see things
wrong if we see them at all. Our best
eternal interest* are put before us and we
cannot see them. The glories of a loving
and pardoning Christ are projected, and wo
do not behold them. Or we have a defect
ive sight which makes the things of this
world larger than the thing* of tne future,
time bigger than eternity. Or we are color
blind and cannot see the difference between
the blackness of darkness forever and
the roseate morning of an evorlast
ing day. But Christ, the surgeon comes
in, and though wo shriuk back afraid
to have him touch us, yet he puts his fingers
on the closed eyelids of the soul, and mid
night becomes mid-noon; and we under
stand something of the joy of the youug
mau of the Bible, who, though he had never
before bean able to sea his hand before his
face, now, by tho touch of Christ, had two
headlights kindled under his brow, cried
out in language that confounded the jeer
ing crowd who were deriding ihat Christ
that had effected the cure, and wanted to.
make him out a bad man. “Whether he
be a sinner or no, I know no!; one thing I
know, that whereas I was blind, now I see.”
But this surgeon was just as wonderful
as an aurist. Very few people have two
good ears. Nine out of ten people are par
ticular to got on this or that side of you
when thoy sit or walk, or ride with you,
hocause they have one disabled ear. Many
have both ears damaged, and what with
the constant racket of our great cities, and
the catarrhal troubles that sweep through
the land, it i* remarkable that there are
any good ears at aU. Most wonderful in
strument is tho human ear. It is harp and
drum and telegraph and telephone and
whispering gallery all in one. cio delicate I
and wondrous is its construction that the
most difficult of all things to reconstruct is
the auditory apparatus. The mightiest of
scientists have put their skill to its retun
ing, and sometimes they stop the progress
of its decadence, or remove temporary ob
structions, but not more tbau one really
deaf ear out of a hundred thousand is ever
cured. It took a God to make the ear, and
it takes a God to mend it. That makes me
curious to see how Christ the surgeon suc
ceeds as an aurlst.
We are told of only two cases ho oper
ated on as an oar surgeon. His friend
Peter, naturally high-tempered, saw Christ
insulted by a man by the name of Malchus,
and Peter let his sword fly, aiming at the
man’s bead, but the sword slipped and
hewed off the outside ear, and our surgebn
touched the laceration and auother ear
(doomed in the place of the one that had
been slashel away. Put it is not the out
side ear that hears. That is only a funnel
for gathering sound and pouring it into the
hidden and more elaborate ear. On the
tieach of Lake Galilee our surgeon found a
man deaf and dumb. The patient dwelt In
perpetual silence, and was speechless. He
could not hear a note of mus'c or
a clap of thunder. He could not call
father or mother or wife or children by
name. What power can waken that dull
tympanum or reach that chain of small
bones or revive that auditory nerve or open
the gate between the brain and the outside
world? The surgeon put his Angers in the
deaf ears and agitated them, and kept on
agitating them until the vibration gave
vital energy to all the dead parts, and they
responded, and when our Burgeon with
drew his lingers from the ears, the two
tunnels of sound wore clear for all sweet
voices of music and friendship. For the
first time in his life tie heard tlto dash
of the waves of Galiloe. Through the
desert of painful silence had been built a
king’s highway of resonance and acclama
tion. Hut yet he waa dumb. No word had
ever leaped over his lip. Speech was
chained under his tongue. Vocalization
and accentuation were to him an impossi
bility. He could express neither love nor
indignation nor worship. Our surgeon,
having unbarred his ear, will now melt tho
sliackel of his tongue. The surgeon will
use the same liniment or salve that
he used on two occasions for the
cure of blind people, namely, the
moisture of hts owu mouth. Tho appli
cation is made. And 10, the rigidity of
the dumb tongue is relaxed, and between
tho tongue and teeth wore born a whole
vocabulary, and words flew into expression.
He not only heard but he talked. One gato
of his body swung in to let sound enter and
the other gate swung out to Ist sound de
part. Why is it that while other surgeons
used knives and forceps and probes and
spectroscopes this surgeon used Only the
ointment of his own lips? To show that all
the curative power we ever feel comes
straight from Christ. And if he touohos us
not we Bball be deaf as a rock and dumb as
a tomb. Oh thou greatest of all aurisU,
compel us to hear and help ua to s|>eak 1
Hut what were the surgeon’s fees for all
these cures of eyes aud ears and tougu s
and withered liands and crooked backs?
The skill and the patnlessuess of the opera
tions were worth hundreds and thousands
of dollars. I)o not think that the cases be
took were all moneyless. Did he not treat
the nobleman’s son? Did he not doctor the
ruler’s daughter? Did he not effect a cure
in the house of a centurion of great wealth,
who had out of his own pocket built a syna
gogue? They would have paid him largo
feus if he had demanded them, aud there
were hundreds of wealthy people in Jeru
salem aud among the merchant castles
along Lake Tiberias who would have given
this surgeon houses uud lauds and all
they bad for such cures as be
could effect. For critical cases iu our time
gn at surgeons have received a thousand
dollars, live thousand dollars, and, in some
cases I know of, fifty thousand dollars, but
the surgeon of whom I speak received not a
shekel, not a penny, not a farthing. In his
whole earthly life, we know of his having
had but sixty-two and a half cent*. When
his taxes were due, by his omniscienco he
knew of a fish in tho sea which had swal
lowed a piece of silver money, as llsh are
apt to swallow anything bright, and he sent
Veter with a hook which brought up that
flsh, and from its mouth was extracted a
Roman stater, or sixty-two and a half
cents, the only money he ever had; and
that ho paid out for tuxes. This
greatest surgeon of all the centuries
gave all his services then, and offers all his
services now, froe of all charge. “Without
money and without price” you may spirit
ually have ycur blind eyes opened, and your
deaf oars unbarred, and your dumb tongues
loosened, and your woutuls healed, and your
soul saved. If Christian people get hurt of
body, mind, or soul, let them remember
that surgery is apt to hurt, but it cures, and
you can afford present pain for future
glory. Besides that, there are powerful an
.•iMthetios in the divine promises that soothe
and alleviate. No other or chloroform or
oocaine ever made one so superior to distress
as a few drops of that magnificent ano
dyne: “All things work together for good
to those who love God;” “Weeping may en
dure for a night, but joy cometh In the
morning."
What a grand thing for our poor human
race whan this surgoon shall hare com
pleted the treatment of the world's wounds!
iho day will come when there will be no
more hospitals, tor there will be no more
s.ek, and no more eye and ear infirmaries,
for thore will be no more blind or deaf, and
no more deserts, for the round earth shall
be brought undernrboricuiture.and no more
blizzards or sunstrokes, for the atmosphere
will be ezpirgated of scorch and chill, and
no more war for the swords shall come out
of the foundry bent into pruning-hooks.
While in the heavenly country we
shall see those who were the
victims of accident or malforma
tion, or hereditary ills on earth, become the
athletes in Elysian fields. Who is that man
with such brilliant eyes close before the
throne! Why, that is the man who, near
Jericho, was blind, and our surgeon cure i
his ophthalmia. Who is that erect, and
graceful, and queenly woman before the
throne* That was the one whom our sur
geon found bent almost double, and oouid
in nowise lift up herself, and he made her
straight. Who is that listening with such
rapture to the music of heaven, solo malt
ing into chorus, oymbal responding
to trumpet, and then himself joining in
the anthem? Why, tnat is the man whom
our surgeon found deaf and dumb on
the beach of Galilee, and by two touches
opened ear-gate and mouth-gate. Who is
that uround whom the crowds are gather
ing with admiring look and thanksgiving,
and cries of *‘o, what he did f r mol O,
i what he did for ray family! O, what be
did for the world!” That i3 tne surgeon of
all the centuries, the oculist, the aunst, the
emancipator, tno saviour. No pay be took
on earth. Come, now, and let all heaven
pay him with worship that shall never end,
and a love that shall never die. On bis
bead be all the crowns! In his hands be all
the scepters! and afe hi feet be all the
worlds!
To Take Randall’s Place.
WASHmoTos, April SO.—Representative
Outbwaite of Ohio, who beat Representative
Randall’s old lieutenant, ex-Represehta'ive
Converse, will probably sheened Mr. Ran
dall as a member of the committee on ap
propriations, and Mr. Mills will probably
succeed Mr. Randall as a member of the
committee on rules.
I DATLT.*IOATTSAR J
■< SCENTBAOOPT. >
I WEEKLY.I.36AYEAR, I
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS.
A OOOD CHANCH FOB TBH
WORLD’S FAIR BILL.
It Will Probably be Passed To-day.
The District of Columbia Bill to Fol
low It—Senator Mitchell to Speak
on His BUI for the Election of Sena
tors by the People.
Washington, April 30.—Tho world’s fair
bill and the District of Columbia appropria
tion bill are both on the calendar for con
sideration by the Senate to-morrow. It la
expected, however, that Senator Plumb
will not press the appropriation bill, but
will give way to the world’s fair bill.
Senator Hawley, who has the latter measure
in charge, hopes to ses it pass before ad
journment, and this will possibly be ac
complished, for, so far as known, Messrs.
Blackburn and Vest are the only senator*
who intend to speak at any length on the
bill.
E LECTION OF SENATORS.
Senator Mitchell has announced his inten
tention of making some remarks Tuesday in
support of bis proposition for a constitu
tional amend uent to provide for the
election of senators by the pe pie.
After the world’s fair and district appro
priation bill* are out of the way the admin-
Htrative customs bill will comp up, and this
measure Is likely to be debased at length.
The land grant forfeiture bill stands next
on the caucus programme.
A democratic caucus will be held to
morrow to decide upon the course of action
with respect to business of general interest
proposed by the republicans.
In the House.
Tho week will open in the House of Repre
sentatives with the Oklahoma bill which
ha* been reported by the conference com
mittee and mar provoke some discussion.
After it is disposed of, the remainder of to
morrow’s session will be consumed In brief
discusalon, and action upon the Indian and
land bills offer©! by the commlltees for
passage under a suspension of tho rules. ,
The present program ne contemplates con
sideration of the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill Tuesday, and
this may be followed by either the bank
ruptcy bill or the bill t admit tho territory
of New Mexico to statehood.
A REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.
Consideration of these matters depends,
however, up a the action of the republican
caucus to-morrow night. The silver men
are confident that the result of the caucus
will Isi tho adoption of a silver bill which will
be called up in the House for action “imme
diately," meaning luesday or Wednesday;
but the conservative ele uent are of the
opinion that the bill will not be taken up
till tho following week.
The international copyright bill is also
among the subjects that may come up for
action this week.
A BEAMAN’S WANDERINGS.
He Returns to Charleston After Two
Tears’ Absence.
Charleston, S. C., April 20.—J. H.
Rogers of this city, formerly second officer
o:i tho Cherokee, a Clyde line steamer, left
here early in 1888, and, shipping from New
York on a Hamburg line steamer, turned
up here a day or two ago, after an absence
of over two years, during whioh all trace of
him was lost. He says he was with the
crew of tho Montrose, which was burned off
Cape Horn iu 1888, and that ho and the
crew lived for over a year on the coast of
Patagonia before they were taken off
by a pussing ship. During this
time tbov subsist and entirely on mussels and
seals. Rogers found his wife here on bis
return. She is stewardess on the Clyde
steamer Iroquois, and instead of marrying
had spent the entire time of his absence la
bunting for traces of her lost husband.
FIRE AT MADISON.
The Warehouse of the Manufacturing
Company Burned.
Madison, Fla., April 20. Last night
about 0 o’clock fire broke out In the large
cotton warehouse of the Florida Manufac
turing Company, of whioh Capt. John
Ingles is manager, and the building was
soou destroyed with its contents, only the
walls remaining. The handsome office was
badly damaged by smoke and water. The
large gin house built last year was not in.
jurod. The hs Is about iIO,OOO and is par
tially covered by insurance. In the ware
house were about 75,000 sacks, a lot of fine
sea island cotton seed, one bale of cotton,
and supplies for the company’s different
mills. The origin of the fire is supposed to
be spontaneous combustion.
A KICK ON THE DIAMOND.
An Umpire Declares a Game Forfeited
to Louisville.
Louisville, April 20.—The ball game
here to-day was given to Louisville by a
score of 9too by Umpire Connell at the
beginning of Louisville’s half of the third
inning. The crowd numbered 11,481 and so
filled the grounds that play was liable to be
impeded under some conditions. It was
agreed between Capts. Raymond and
McCarthy that if a man knocked a ball
against the left field seats he should take as
many bases as ho liked. At the close of St.
Louis’ half of the third the score stood 3to
0 for St Louis.
CAUSE OF THE KICK.
Ryan got first on balls and Wolf batted
the ball against tho left field seats and, upon
the umpire’s decision. Ryan was given a
run. Sc. Louis protested and refused to
play out the game, and Connell gave tho
game against them. St. Louis agreed to
play out the game as an exhibition, to the
satisfaction of the crowd. Von Der Aho
will probably file a protest against the de
cision. The score of the exhibition game
follows;
Louisville o 0 6 8 0 1 4 0 o—l3
St. Louis 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 o— l*
Batteries: St. Louis. Chamberlain and Ad
ams; Louisville. Goodill and Ryan. Base hits:
Louisville 15, St. Louis 15. Errors: Louisville 3j
St. Louis 5.
At Columbus, O.—
Columbus 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 o—4
Toledo 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 2—9
Base hits: Columbus 8, Toledo 9. Errors:
Columbus 3, Toledo 0.
BROOKLYN BEATS SYRACUSE.
New York, April 20.—At Ridgwood
park, Brooklyn, to-day, 3,748 people turned
out tu see the Brooklyn (American Associa
tion) team do battle with the Syracuse club.
The score was:
Brooklyn 1 1300030 I—9
Syracuse 2 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 o—B
Base hits: Brooklyn 9; Syracuse 11. Errors:
Brooklyn 8; Syracuse 8. Batterie-.: Bowersand
Toole; Br.ggs and Casey.
OPENED AT NEWARK.
Newark, N. J., April 20.—The Newark
club opened the home championship season
with Jersey City here to-day. T. e game was
close and interesting, 4,000 spectators being
present. The following is the soore:
Newark 0 1 1 0 3 0 0J 1 x— •
Jersey Oily 2 00000020—4
Earned runs: Newark 3.
